Category Archives: Content Research

Aside from the SEO boost that can come from regularly posting fresh content, marketers know that all internet content needs to be created with a goal in mind. Whether you're trying to drive traffic to your website, generate leads, create brand awareness, or get repeat business, your content should be designed to meet your goals.

When it comes to planning and creating content, different topics, content formats and publishing methods can have a huge impact on your content's effectiveness. A new report suggests that many marketers use specific types of content to successfully convert their site visitors into paying customers.

A common misconception about content marketing is that it's only valuable for large brands. Small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) may not feel they have the resources, budget or time to use content creation as a strategy that boosts web traffic, builds an audience and ultimately increases sales.

However, the number one most important rule for ensuring content marketing ROI is to provide value. Neither large companies nor SMBs have to spend exorbitant amounts of money or time to create extremely valuable content that gets results. In fact, one of the best resources for content ROI is your own employees.

The hesitation that many businesses express when deciding whether or not to execute a content marketing campaign is understandable. Content marketing is still a relatively new approach, and it can often be difficult to measure any given campaign's return on investment.

However, more and more research is proving that not only is content marketing valuable for brands right now, it's also a marketing technique that's here to stay for the foreseeable future. A new survey from marketing research firm Ascend2 outlines the overwhelmingly positive content marketing climate.

It's a trend we've been hearing about for years now: young people are paying attention to the news less and less. This isn't really surprising, as interest in print media and television news programs have been dwindling for decades.

So, if you're trying to attract young people to your website using content, are you forced to find a way to make a "boring" niche more entertaining? Should you even resort to mindless but popular listicles à la Buzzfeed? Not necessarily - according to a new survey, news content is actually more popular with millenials than previously thought.

According to Demand Metric, around 90 percent of organizations are now using content marketing to generate traffic, leads and sales. Also, 78 percent of CMOs consider content to be the future of marketing.

However, anybody familiar with content creation knows how time consuming it can be. Especially if you're dealing with image or video content, it takes serious time to create something that surpasses the competition and is good enough to get noticed among the millions of pieces of content published every day. So, why not get your users to do some of the work for you?